{"id":3701,"date":"2010-09-29T20:21:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T03:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2010-09-29T20:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T03:21:23","slug":"shorter-taibbi-on-tea-party-many-older-americans-believe-colored-people-dont-deserve-equal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/09\/29\/shorter-taibbi-on-tea-party-many-older-americans-believe-colored-people-dont-deserve-equal-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter Taibbi on Tea Party: Many older Americans believe colored people don&#8217;t deserve equal rights."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/17390\/210904>Matt Taibbi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let me get this straight,&#8221; I say to David. &#8220;You&#8217;ve been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; he says, &#8220;there&#8217;s a lot of people on welfare who don&#8217;t deserve it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My understanding of domestic politics changed after I learned about the research that <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/29\/business\/yourmoney\/29view.html>conclusively links<\/a> views on welfare to diversity. <\/p>\n<p>There are many who would rather starve than share the table with a &#8220;stranger&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi: &#8220;Let me get this straight,&#8221; I say to David. &#8220;You&#8217;ve been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?&#8221; &#8220;Well,&#8221; he says, &#8220;there&#8217;s a lot of people on welfare who don&#8217;t deserve it.&#8221; My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}